I should clarify that it was the one and only time Mortuary cropped up in the “Executive Summary”. There is a detailed section on the mysteries of the mortuary later in the report itself – even down to advice about how long after death could bodies be manipulated into certain positions, before rigor mortis sets in…. a rigourous delving into the nether regions indeed…

Moor, I also read your continuing blogposts with great interest. The one on the Rolls Royce incident was particularly interesting as i was in attendance at the event in question which was the first Transplant Games or as im sure i remember it being called then ” the Transplant Olympics”. The year was absolutely 1978

Jimmy Savile was part of the escort of the “olympic flame” on that day and i have a vivid memory of him doing his “hand kissing routine ” with two older ladies who were watching as he passed along Southsea seafront.

They loved it!!

I was standing nearby and he also came up and said hello and shook my hand. His “helpers” were giving out kidney donor cards.

I do remember that it was a busy day on Southsea Castle Field and JS did attract a crowd whenever he appeared. Far too many to have done anything to anybody in that car in the position it was parked. The Rock Gardens Pavillion was a busy place when there was an event on. It stood where the Pyramids Centre now stands.

As for JS driving over to Southsea Common to commit an assault , that is the most loopy of the claims. There is NO cover on Southsea Common. It was the same then as it is now. It is a great bare patch of grass opposite a very busy seafront.

JS was wearing red and white which were the colours of the kidney donor cards at that time. Not sure whether it was shorts or tracksuit but red was the colour of the day.

At least he got that bit right!!!

The picture of the boy looks like something from a Freemans catalogue.

@Giles2008 Fantastic. I unlocked the comments on that old Post, copy-pasted your memoir, and then re-locked the Post. Many Thanks. What is most depressing is that Operation Yewtree must long ago have run down the facts about the “Transplant Games” but you can bet your bottom dollar that that sort of factual information will never leak out in the media.

Corruption starts at the top – Jimmy said that in 1992. I take that to suggest that it can only be us at the bottom who will will try and roll back the tide of filth, even if we do feel like Peter with his finger in the dyke at times (quiet at the back).

Thanks for the Rosie Millard link. A good system to tot up the degree of opinions in such matters. I think ALL women, when younger, have been groped. Also had extremely offensive words said to them at dances, and by youths who troll by in cars, and bawl obscenities as you are walking along. Maybe lot of women are disapointed when the wolf whistles die down, I was just relieved for it to stop. I do think the feminist revenge factor figures somewhere in some this persecution of elderly celebs. They are the fall guys paying for all those annoyances experienced as a younger woman. You know who they are. You sometimes do not know the correct date and place…yet you are ‘she who must be believed’ without any supporting evidence that anything really did happen. How can that be right?

It isn’t hard to find on the internet a woman who has given accounts of actions by Dave Lee Travis closely resembling the allegations which formed the case on which he was found guilty. She may or may not be the same person. Those accounts were comic and date from at least 2007 until 2012. They are very much at variance with the tone of the “impact statement”. Further, in a podcast from 2012, she states categorically that she was unsure whether or not DLT touched her breasts deliberately. If she is the accuser, were these accounts, and especially the podcast, available to the court? If they were not available, might they form the basis for an appeal?

Women get their bottoms pinched. It is part of life. Get over it—–this was part of the headline in the Millard article. I don’t have a public opinion to express on the pinching of bottoms but the expression ‘Get over it’ is rather interesting in the context of who I understand might be the victim namely a professional comedienne. I say interesting in the context of a comedienne because in a way humour is often a way of contextualising the incongruous in a manner which places the incongruous act in its proper context namely it appears one thing (serious) but with humour it shows it to be what it really is.—something to be laughed at and not taken seriously even though it might appear serious without its deconstruction through humour. And here I think the Crown’s case against DLT may be in difficulty should the conviction be taken on appeal and the podcast above is correct. Its not just that there is an admission that it might or might not have been deliberate but it goes to intent if it was deliberate and the intent if it was deliberate—-I don’t know the law in respect of the offence that DLT was convicted but there are usually shades of intent when the act is deliberate (as in the difference between murder and manslaughter) and if DLT’s intent was judged by the comedienne as genuinely one of sexual aggression/gratification to some greater or lesser extent then its clearly not something that can be contextualised by humour –well not by the victim of such an assault —-or I suggest by anyone else who knew the genuine intent. But there is also a great deal more that muddies the water —including Dinah Rose’s husband who let the incident pass apparently —he should I would have thought had to memorandise the complaint if he thought it serious and traumatising —why did he not do so or if he did was the memoranda produced.? Was he called as a witness to corroborate? If not why not? Was he proofed by the CPS ? If he wasn’t why not?